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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Malini K. Bhandaru, Sudbury, MA (US);
Matthew M. Bace, North Andover, MA (US);
A Leonard Brown, Weston, MA (US);
Ian M. Steiner, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vivek Garg, Folsom, CA (US);
Eric Dehaemer, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Scott P. Bobholz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor is described that includes a processing core and a plurality of counters for the processing core. The plurality of counters are to count a first value and a second value for each of multiple threads supported by the processing core. The first value reflects a number of cycles at which a non sleep state has been requested for the first value's corresponding thread, and, a second value that reflects a number of cycles at which a non sleep state and a highest performance state has been requested for the second value's corresponding thread. The first value's corresponding thread and the second value's corresponding thread being a same thread.